Monthly Archives: April 2009

Gov. David Paterson plans to celebrate his 55th birthday at a New York City fundraiser on June 11, but some Long Island Democrats worry that donating to him would be like betting on the wrong horse. Paterson has sent pretty ...

Jon Cooper’s senate run can wait ’til tomorrow. Today, after a 29-year wait, the Lloyd Harbor resident and Suffolk County legislator married his partner Robert Cooper in Greenwich, Conn. “It was wonderful, it’s a very special day,” Cooper said by ...

A Long Island-based manufacturer of surgical masks is working around-the-clock due to a surge in demand related to concerns over swine flu. Hauppauge-based Crossstex, a division of Little Falls, N.J.-based Cantel Medical Corp., has received orders for nearly 10 million ...

A group known for helping students find work is about to be unemployed. For a few weeks, support has been gathering for the Long Island Works Coalition, an organization that has run out of money as the recession dried up ...

Manhattan attorney Jacob Zamansky has filed an amended lawsuit against the Bank of America, charging that it breached its ‘know your customer’ obligations by allowing a convicted felon to manage millions through about two dozen BofA accounts. Zamansky, of Zamansky ...

Bert Cunningham can’t get enough of Richard Kessel. Cunningham, who spent nine years as the vice president of communications at the Long Island Power Authority, is taking a similar position at the New York Power Authority in White Plains, where ...

Gov. David Paterson said Wednesday that he has a secret plan to bail out New York City’s transit system, just as a transit official said the crisis has reached “a moment of truth.” Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Dale Hemmerdinger complained ...

On March 31, voters in Republican strongholds gave New York GOP boss Joe Mondello two more black eyes. In special elections, the party’s candidate for Brookhaven town supervisor, Tim Mazzei and its nominee for the upstate congressional seat vacated by ...

April 29th. That was the date marking the first 100 days of Barack Obama’s presidency. From a business perspective, it seemed a heck of a lot longer. The importance of the 100-day point in an administration is arbitrary, of course. ...

The North Fork of Long Island might be beautiful, but apparently that’s not enough to drive people to move there during this recession. According to an article in he Riverhead News-Review, the Town of Riverhead only grew by 298 people ...